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*: He tortured himself to find out how he could make his declaration to her, and always halting between the fear of displeasing her and the shame of being such a coward, he wept with discouragement and desire. Then he took energetic resolutions, wrote letters that he tore up, put it off to times that he again deferred.

*: It is a coward and servile humour, for a man to disguise and hide himselfe under a maske, and not dare to shew himselfe as he is.

*: He raised the house with loud and coward cries.

*: Invading fears repel my coward joy.

*: "This case will make a stir, sir," he remarked. "It beats anything I have seen, and I am no chicken."

*: Stella is no chicken.

: Dont play chicken with a freight train; youre guaranteed to lose.

*:For the umpteenth time, I chickened.

*:All right, so I chickened.

*:Even if he slipped and failed, or worse, chickened, they would be unlikely to judge too harshly.